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Title	Essay towards an history of dancing, in which the whole art and its various excellencies are in some measure explain'd : containing the several sorts of dancing
Subject	Dance
Creator	Weaver, John, 1673-1760
Description	Weaver, John (1673-1760) London: Printed for Jacob Tonson at Shakespeare's-Head over-against Catherine-street in the Strand, 1712 First edition This is the earliest history of dancing in English, written by the son of a dancing master of the same name. Young John Weaver studied Latin and Greek and would pepper his later works with classical quotations in their original languages. Indeed, one of Weaver's ambitions was to revive the style of acting and dancing of the ancient Greeks and Romans. In 1700 he staged his first production, describing it as "the first Entertainement that appeared on the English Stage, where the Representation and Story was carried by Dancing, Action and Motion only." During this same time, a new system of dance notation had been published in Paris: R.A. Feuillet's Chorégraphie. Weaver translated Feuillet into English and published the translation in 1706. That same year he also published A Collection of Ball-Dances Performed at Court, in which, by using Feuillet's notation, he documented the dances created by Queen Anne's Royal Dancing Master, Mr. Isaacs. A dancer himself, Weaver taught dance until he died at the age of eighty-seven.
Publisher	London : Printed for Jacob Tonson, 1712
Date	1712
Type	Text
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Language	eng
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Call Number	GV1601 .W36 1712; Record ID 9917553730102001
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Title	Page 164
OCR Text	Show E ssA toward a the Performer; and 1n which he muf fhew his Skill 5 nor will it perhaps b fo eafie a Matter, as fome may think to attain a Perfeftion init: Let hi therefore, like Demofthenes, prefen himfelf before a large Looking-Glafs and make a Judgment of, and improv his Motions and endeavour to diftin guith the Proper from the Improper It muft be allow'd that the French excel in this kind - of Dancing; an Monfieur Pecour (as I am inform'd) i the Chacoone, or Paffacaille, which i of the grave Movement, and the mof agreeable Charatter in this Dancing The beft Performer of this Dancin that ever was in England, 1 take to b Monfieur Desbargues, who had certain Addrefs and Artfulnefs in hi Geflures, which material Articles of the Art fo as they are the mof an Qualification who excels in them ought I think to be efteem'd the greateft Mafter GROTESQU Dancing i wholly calculated for the Stage, an takes in the greateft Part of Opera Dancing and is muc more difficul than the Serious, requiring the utmof Skil
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